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>> michael: coming up tonight, the presidents of the the president the parents of new town, will talk translate into votes? i'm michael shure and you're in "the war room." [ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> michael: the gun debate raged on in washington today. all the action was in the senate where majority leader harry reid started the day by calling on republicans to vote for a proposed gun safety bill. and he cited his own very personal experience with gun
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violence. >> sometimes people with a passion will purchase a handgun to do bad things with it. some even kill themselves. waiting a few days helps. >> michael: newtown families have said the exact same thing making common sense changes to laws might have made the difference for their children. and today 11 of those family members met with vice president joe biden before heading to capitol hill. biden described what they told him, and in no uncertain terms he called on congress to act. >> one remarkable woman who has a background in psychology and psychiatry said, you know, how--how do they explain not doing anything? my little girl, my baby was hiding in a bathroom, and she
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got shot through the heart. now it's time for every man and woman in the senate to stand up and say yay or nay i'm for or i'm against. >> michael: but in washington as we have come to learn, a yay or nay vote is anything but simple. 14 republican senators led by who he would rand paul said they will filibuster any begun bill that would come to the floor. any at all. they refuse to consider any legislation that he's heartbroken families are calling for. one senator from oklahoma said that newtown had nothing to do with gun legislation and the families were being duped by the administration. he told "huffington post" reporter jennifer bendry quote i think it's so unfair of the administration to hurt these family. to make them think it has to go to do with them when in fact, it doesn't. that's great.
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you stay classy, oklahoma. and he was voted stupidest senator by his colleagues last year but i digress. by while his ideas nay be out there, other senators who are threatening to filibuster are not some fringe i normally. they're not falling in line. nine g.o.p. senators have come out against the filibuster including both georgia senators, that means that harry reid should have the votes he needs for legislation. he would put up the vote though would expand background checks, and enhance school safety measures. that sets up a senate vote this measures. rand paul is irate with members of his party who would dare even consider letting it come to the floor for a vote.
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here he is talking to mike huckabee. >> we're quite concern that some on our side are waffling on this. we have a got a bunch of republicans who said we don't want them to hold them to a 60 vote threshold. i think no good comes from this. we'll get some abridgement from the second amendment once we get on this bill. >> michael: president obama has made it clear that the bill a not impact second amendment rights. he's making calls to senators on both sides to talk about background checks. tomorrow he'll even have dinner with just republicans. he as well as the family members of newtown making their voices heard on the hill four months after the tragedy the fight has just begun. >> four months to them? it feels like it just happened a moment ago. >> to you. >> and yet it's been years since i've seen my son. okay?
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so we're just--we're not going anywhere. we're here and we're going to be here. >> michael: i'm joined by stephen barton, stephen is a survivor of the aurora colorado shooting, and he also grew up 15 minutes from newtown connecticut. he was at capitol hill and at the president's speech last night. thank you for being here. >> thanks for having me. >> michael: what was the mood like when vice president biden was speaking? >> vice president biden has been such a strong ally in this fight, but also such a comfort to these families. so in some sense i think he feels regretful that they haven't been able to accomplish this yet. but you see still there in the trenches fighting every day and you can see he's genuinely committed to this. >> michael: i think that's shown through each time the president
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has spoken out about it. you were on the hill. what was it like on the hill with the newtown families. do you think they may per said some lawmakers on this issue. >> they have the most powerful voice in this debate right now. contrary to what they may sigh might say they're listening to these families. they've experienced the toll of gun violence in a way few people ever will. that elevates the opinion above the opinion of many other people. i really do, they have such an impact on this and they're doing amazing work on the cap hole hill. >> michael: you heard the foolish things the senator from oklahoma said. let's look at your party. i've been around capitol hill, closer than we are. what do you make of the turmoil in the republican party. do you feel that the democrats can capitalize on it now? >> i think so. you have senators like senator mccain senator isaacson.
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moderates who finally realize this is an issue that deserves debate, in the highest chamber in our country in the united states senate. there is a fringe minority who is afraid to having a discussion at all on this issue. they know when it comes to the merits of the debate they'll lose every time, and they don't want it to happen publicly. it's all politics. >> michael: you referred to the leader of the senator harry reid who said he believes he'll have the votes to bring it to the floor. are you hearing that we could see this passed by thursday? >> we'll certainly be getting a vote. that much is clear. you know, what happens after we break the filibuster is unclear. >> michael: if that filibuster is broken, i'm sure you thought about it how is that going to make you, stephen, feel, after what happened to you after
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seeing what happened to so many others, what is the feeling? what do you imagine it will feel like to see the senate vote on this? >> i mean, to me this is just the beginning, just the beginning of a movement that has existed for many years and has kind of been weakened for the past decade. the nra is not the only player in the game any more. we have organizations like mayors against legal guns, americans for responsible solutions, the brady campaign, standing up to say we're going to hold our elected representatives to account on this issue. after aurora i did not expect it to get to this point frankly but i'm so glad we're going to finally have a fair and honest debate on this issue. >> michael: yeah, you know, you found yourself in this unfortunate lobby that you never wanted to be a part of. but now that you are, now that you share a kinship with these
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people, you talked about the mayors against gun violence and the nra being in opposition. tell me about michael bloomberg how big of an impact has he has on people in your situation and the lobby that you're with right now? >> his impact is unparalleled. this is an issue that is very near and dear to his heart. i mean, he's been serving as mayor for many years now and he's seen officers from his own city get you know, mowed down in new york city, and he has seen families who have been affected by this. really, his support is invaluable to this. it's not like it's just him. you know, he certainly has vast resources, but he's representing what nine and ten americans support, which is expending background checks to all gun sales. common sense measures that don't infringe on anybody's second amendment rights but will do much to protect every day citizens. >> michael: common sense, common
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sense, common sense. the most important thing. also invaluable is your eloquence and optimism. stephen barton, thank you for coming on the show today. i enjoyed talking to you about this. gun patrol may not control may not be the only legislation we see this week. they expect to see an immigration bill this fry. marco rubio sat in on a private conference call that he hoped to put it off for months, but he was told that was quote was absolutely not happening. ralph reed, leader of the faith and freedom coalition is actually calling for immigration reform and he, and michael bloomberg formed an awkward alliance when they announceed they were cofounding a new group pushing for immigration reform. here, etc. speaking for
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univision today. >> everybody recognizes it's time to bite the bullet and make the tough calls and get this solved. there is a problem-solving the element here that is leaving many people in the shadows with undetermined legal status is not good public. >> michael: michael bloomberg and ralph reed on the same issue? if it feels like cold today it's because the temperatures in hell are plummeting. whether it was a sly sobture on someone on mitch mc mcconditional's staff. someone shows how they gear up for oppositional research. it's fascinating. and then there is courage and what a school did in the heart of the jim crow south. students who were willing to put it all on the line. later, what do you do when
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you're an 18-year-old kid in alaska and global warming is melting your world away? you sue the whole state. that's what you do. we're just getting started. don't go away.
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that i'm going to be the first one to call them out. they can question whether i'm right, but i think that the audience gets that this guy, to the best of his ability, is trying to look out for us. >> michael: you are in our war room every day. but have you ever wanted to be a fly the wall of mitch mcconnell's war room, this is your lucky day. a post of an audio recording from an earlier meeting inside their louisville headquarters. after the story broke the campaign reported a bugging to the fbi. the reporting begins with mcconnell setting the agenda. >> i assume most of you have play the game whac-a-mole? this is the workers hac-a-mole
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period of the campaign. when anybody sticks their head up, do them out and we're even planning to do it if the courier here shortly so. >> michael: do the math. whac-a-mole turned to candidate turned to ashley judd for her support of president obama and her carpet bag reputation. it seems unseemly with the actress' mark with depression. it seems pink socks once caused her to flip out. >> so pink fuzzy socks are of concern. >> that's what we'll pass out on fancy. >> so again so that's the sort of the tip of the iceberg. like i said, you know, we're still drilling down and there's a wealth of material, and just arrested to get all the way around it. >> michael: a few you hours
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after the tapes went public that same war room tried to turn the tapes into campaign cash. team mitch posted a fundraising message saying stand with senator mcconnell against the liberal media's illegal and under handed tactics. reporters asked three times if attacks on candidates mental health fair game? >> last month they were attacking my wives' ethnicity and then apparently unbeknownst to us they were bugging our headquarters, quite nixonion moves. >> michael: an hour of that statement, mcconnell said he was not accuseing progress kentucky of bugging his headquarters although it sounded like he was but it sound like that it's nice to know that it's against use when it's used
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against republicans. donnie, a veteran of many war rooms, including al gore's 2002 presidential campaign. >> mcconnell is mad because he's older than richard nixon. >> michael: that's a great point. >> you got him from the get go. >> michael: it's absolutely interest. donnie, part of me thinks it's outrage by the way they're behaving. part of me thought it was cool listening in on something like "the war room" there. >> did you bug it? >> michael: i know nothing i know nothing. the idea that this is a typical war room struck me. is this typical or did they kind of go over the line? >> the mcconnell people took this right out of the text book. they went after ashley judd on mental health, on the fact that she has depression. and they didn't want to respond to that because they know there is no good answer to that.
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they deflected and punched back just like a good boxer would do, they punch back was to accuse the unknown other side. they said they didn't know, accusing the other side of doing something wrong and then harking back to an accusation they made a month ago that the left was attacking mcconnell's wife. this is a very textbook war room reaction to an attack on yourself. deflect and attack somewhere else. >> michael: that's interesting. so when you're inside "the war room" like that, i mean, the opposition research stuff when you have a gem like that, or whatever however they perceive it to be a gem, are you giddy with excitement, oh, we found out that so and so did-- >> when you're giddy about this kind of stuff you're going to make a lot of mistakes. there is no question that mitch mcconnell is one of the best political assassins.
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he's very powerful, very effective politician. he's not an effective u.s. senate but he has power and preserved his position very very well, both within kentucky. he got rid of a fellow republican senator in kentucky because they didn't get along. and now we have he rand paul. >> michael: that was jim bunning we're talking about. he reminds me of harry reid. occasionally very frustrating. they said they were bugged. mother jones says they were not part of bugging of the campaign. what kind of security do campaign offices have. >> let's make a point between an u.s. official office and a campaign office. this was a campaign office. the responsibility for security and repercussions for funny business is lower. the campaign is responsible for the security. they may be a volunteer.
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remember mitt romney's 47% tape? that was a bus boy. >> michael: a bar tender. >> he might have just been a volunteer who was in the room. you notice he was very careful the senator was very careful not to say that they absolutely have evidence that somebody bugged their telephone. right? i think that again deflect and attack. they're sort of making stuff up so they don't have to answer this question why do you think senator mcconnell is favor game to attack ashley judd's mental health. >> michael: that is an important distinction when you hear him say, well, this is what they said about my wife, so i'm going to do about that. we hear the campaign discussing judd's comments on christianity. i want you all to take a listen to this. this is the same tape. >> i know this is sort of a sensitive subject but you--
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>> michael: so donnie, it's worth noting that they did say this was a sensitive subject. how do war rooms deal with sensitive subjects? >> let me tart by reminding about something that begunked di gandhi said.i like your christ, it's the christians that you have. this false story about a war on christianity, and how liberals are against christians because they're liberals, i personally--i'm a christian, but i'm a democrat because i'm a christian, not in spite of it. this is typical right-wing political bull that they're throwing. >> michael: you could not have put it better.
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the gan dhi example is important. it's not just ashley judd but team mitch described another possible challenger, alice lundergand and her support for the democratic party platform. take a listen. : >> michael: to smart to use his name in a sentence. donnie, before we let you go, is it worse for mitch mcconnell now that he has alice lunder
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crimes. >> she has kentucky values. >> michael: elected statewide. >> elected statewide. i'll promise you she has named the name barack obama while she has been in office. >> michael: unquestionably. thank you for being on the show. donnie fowler. up next, when the right said that the obama budget doesn't get it done, we roll our eyes and show this photograph of their budget architect. but when the left has a problem with it, then that gets our attention. we'll talk about that after the break. >> only on current tv. my relationship with water started when i was a kid. you think of how many people go to the ocean and for such different reasons. it attracts everyone but i think we're all attracted by one
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similar thing which is the horizon. ya know, there is nothing more peaceful than standing on the edge of the shore and looking out at that horizon. that place where blue meets blue. i'm a story teller. as a story teller i really think that adventure works to draw out people into a story. i have this long relationship with "national geographic". it's afforded me the opportunity to organize expeditions with their encouragement that have taken us by kayak literally around the world. historically a lot of people who go out on adventures go out for adventure's sake which i applaud. but this day and age i think you have to go out with a higher purpose. everywhere we went we talked to people about climate change, overfishing. all those things we've saw we've seen literally everywhere we've gone. a big part of our motivation in going out and having these adventures is to bring back stories that we can share. ya know, the tools are
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incredibly important. technology has changed but the goal is the same. it is to enlighten people using adventure as the trigger. on each of these adventures, at one point, i'll just be sitting on a beach, looking at that horizon line and reminding myself how lucky i am to be able to be out there and to be both learning for myself and then sharing. i know that we're not going to change the world from the seat of a kayak but if i'm able to bring those stories back and share them and i manage to change the life of one person or two or three or four then it was totally worth it.
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[ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> michael: you're back ms. "the war room." you know, a left on left battle is brewing as the president
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plans to release his bucket tomorrow. progressives led by bernie sanders are voicing their disappointment for the proposal of social security. the adjustment would call for cost of living adjustments by reducing how inflation is measured payments would not increase as much every year. today they presented petitions signed by 2 million members who rejected that part of the president's plan to balance the budget. >> we're not going to balance the budget on the backs of elderly, disabled vets, the sick or the children. >> michael: i love that vermont accent. not only will this adjust how much people can see on their checks but also goes back to to 2008 when barack obama vowed not to cut social security. the afl-cio called the move un
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unconscientiousible. we welcome karl frisch. how are you. >> good, how are you. >> michael: i'm upset about this. once again the middle and working class are bearing the budget ofbrunt of the budget. account president make it happen. >> it's not just the left who is upset about this. you look at polling most people do not want cuts to social security. that's what chained cpi does. someone who is 75 years old would see a reduction in points of 500 years. 85 years old would be more than $1,000. that's not people in the future but current people on social security right now. it's disabled people, veterans. this is wildly unpopular among progressives but wildly
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unpopular among the american people. this is--you know, if this is carrot and stick, it's carrot for the republicans and conservatives and a stick for everybody else. >> michael: that's a good way of putting it. cutting social security has long been a priority, let's say, for republicans. do you think the president would be the first democratic president to actually make cuts to social security in order to reach a deal with the g.o.p.? >> i sure hope not. but the whole idea that they're coming to the table for a deal is preposterous at any point. to offer the cut, something that the republicans have not even asked for mind you. it wasn't even asked for. i don't think republicans are going to come to the table just for an opportunity to kill social security. this is a party that has stood in the way of every opportunity to work with the president stood in the way of his bench nominations, administration nominations, immigration reform,
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they've stood in front of everything that the president has ever hoped to accomplish. rather than offering up cuts to social security, the president should do what served him well months ago. he should be hitting the road and talking about how republicans are standing in the way of getting the job done. we should be battling--we should be going nuclear on unemployment and creating jobs rather than cut going nuclear on social security the people who built the country. >> michael: from where i'm sitting i sort of see this as the politics of a wink and a nod where the president knows he's not going to get the republicans to do this. this is all about getting john boehner out of the speakership and getting nancy pelosi back in there so when these congressmen go back to their district sand they say where were you on social security? you were offered a deal and you were intransient. why am i wrong on that?
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>> you might be right but any time that democrats offer up cuts to social security they're saying this is the policies of a democratic president. i don't think the american people need any more evidence that republicans are out of step and unwilling to compromise, and i think that this is not the right solution if you're trying to underscore that, that message. there are plenty of opportunities to underscore that message every day in washington. you don't need to create one for them. >> michael: yeah, you know, i think that's true. i actually have a little bit of a hunch now that the president is doing this, and it may turn out to be brilliant politics, but it doesn't and it turns out to be a disaster, let's move away from that and talk about everybody else's favorite living democrat that's bill clinton and republican stephen colbert. >> you do not presently tweet.
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[ nodding ] >> i took the liberty of opening you a twitter company. now president clinton was taken. william jefferson clinton was taken. but prez billy jeff was available. [laughter] >> michael: the first tweet went out on saturday and the account already has over 68,000 followers, more than you karl, have you tweeted anything to prez billy jeff? >> i haven't but i will as soon as i'm off the show. of course, if prez billy jeff wants to follow karl frisch on twitter i'll be glad to post. it's fun to introduce someone to twitter. >> michael: and it's a surprise that president clinton doesn't already have a twitter account. >> 140 characters for a president? 140 characters for a man who spoke for two hours at the 1988
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presidential democratic convention, i think that might be cutting it a little close. >> michael: it might be impossible, he dictated a tweet to colbert. there has only been one tweet. democratic strategist karl frisch. thank you for coming on the show. 50 years ago in birmingham, alabama, a group of students took their lives and their futures into their hands when they marched into the deep south of racial hatred. tonight we'll talk to one of them. documentaries... on current tv.
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>> michael: 50 years ago hundreds of students in birmingham alabama, marched to protest the city's is he agrees gas stationist policies. beginning on may 2 1963, young people poured out of their
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classrooms and met at the baptist church right there in birmingham. their goal was to meet with the mayor. instead they were met with fire hoses and police dogs ordered by the police commissioner eugene connor. they were hauled off to birmingham jail. the horrifying images of young people being attacked on the evening news served as a wake-up call to americans really throughout the world about segregation in this country. with at the tonight is one of the courageous young people who participated in the march. james was a high school student at the time. he went on to work with black awareness who recruited black students for college. it's an honor to having you tonight, james. >> thank you for having me. >> michael: what was it like growing up in segregated birmingham in the 1960s?
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>> it was really tough. at the beginning you--you're growing up, your life is your life. you're riding your bicycle and you're playing in the yards like other kids. but as you get older i started to notice the colored signs, the segregation. the fact that i could not drink out of cold water fountains. the black community as it was then was totally black. everybody listened lived in the same neighborhood. it was a difficult life to live the older you got. >> michael: i have an eight-year-old son. i can't imagine having to explain to him what the signs are and what segregation would be and to have to do that to a child, i can't imagine having to do it. martin luther king jr. faced criticism for recruiting children for the march that
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we're talking about most notably from malcolm x. saying real children don't put children on--real men don't put children on the firing line. why did he do it? >> at the time the demonstrations were slowing down. they were actually hell held at lunch counters. adults were threatened with their jobs so they really had issues of supporting their families and maintaining their jobs, and the children literally volunteered to go. now there were people who did have problems with that because we were children, but i began to watch the demonstrations at lunch counters with a friend of mine. i said, i can't do that, but what i could do is go to the movement meetings. i went to those meetings, two three times a week, and they
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were held in the churches. we heard men like dr. king, reverend shuttlesworth. reverend jesse jackson. congressman john louis. all these people were there and they influenced us to take a stand, and to do what we could. at that time the children were able to do what no one else could do, and we took the charge. >> michael: and so describe for us the scene on may 2nd, the day that it started. tell me what happened, and how it began? were you scared when it all started? >> sure, i think everybody had some fear. i didn't have an overwhelming sense of fear. as a teenager you feel like you can accept the challenge. on may second it was termed d-day, demonstration day. i did not go to school. i went directly to the church with friends of mine. we met at a small meeting with
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dr. king and he really emphasized and stressed the importance of non-violence. if we could not be non-violent we were free to go. most of us stayed. i led a group of people out of the front door of the church down the steps of 16th street baptist church. we got to a block and a half, and bull connor stepped out of an armored tank with wheels. he made sure that we were placed in paddy wagons. he was not short on racial slurs, and we were taken off to jail. we were crammed in there so tight. my knees were up against the young man in front of me in his chest, and his niece were in my chest. they kept pushing the door until they could get the door shut, and we were taken off to jail. >> michael: what was jail like? what were the conditions of the birmingham jail like? >> my jail was really hell.
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that's when the fear and concern set in. i saw a young man man endureing interrogation, dragged across the interrogators desk and thrown on the floor and told he didn't want to hear anybody else say anything about "no comment." he was taken out of a side door. they threatened me with no comment. i gave error thousand erroneous information as far as my name. we were put in concrete rooms. there were several toilet bowls along the wall, and that was it. any toiletry occurred in front of 300 of your closest friends. the food was deplorable. i had what for breakfast what looked like grits and then a later of grease on top of the grits, and then a later of water%
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on top of the grease. there was nothing to eat except candy bars, and most of us ate candy bars. >> michael: which when you're a kid candy bars are pretty exciting. you probably could not have eaten them otherwise. >> actually, it was fantastic. >> michael: i'm sure. a lot of history talks about the singing in the jails, and what an important part that played in sort of keeping the morale up for the kids. tell us briefly about that. >> the singing was very important. singing would boost our morale. but having been in there after a couple of days, we were not singing, our morale was done down, everything was making us feel bad. reverend was in the group where i was. sometimes he would sing for 15 for 20 minutes by himself. and no one was feeling like a morale booster but he continued
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to sing song after song. eventually 20 joined him and then 50, and then 100 and then we all started to sing. once we started to sing our spirits were lifted. all of the movement songs would lift our spirits. at one point we heard that there were some girls who began to sing somewhere else in the jail because they heard us singing. >> michael: that's fantastic. before i let you go, james, and of course i could sit here all night and talk to you, i want you to look back at the impact in athat the youth had in the civil rights movement, and ask you does it disappoint you the lack of interest young people have today. >> it's not a disappoint but more of a question i have in my mind. because we faced overt prejudices and racism we were more locked in and more focused. we had goals that even we could
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see needed to be accomplished. racism right now is much more insidious. it's harder to identify, and i think they're not so much unconcerned is that they're just uninformed. so i think it's important that we get this kind of story out so that they can know exactly what happened. that would be black and white youth. >> michael: well, i love talking about the story with you. i could sit here all night. james stewart joining us from montgomery. thank you for your story and heroism way back then. coming up, 18-year-old is fighting back. a story that you'll only find right here in "the war room." it's next. stay with us.
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one key of indicator of climate change is per ma frost.
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almost a quarter of the northern hemisphere is covered in person per ma frost but it could melt and release methane into the atmosphere. a warming of 1 degree could create a major thaw and that's where we are now. for our next guest the harmful affects of per ma frost is happening in his own backyard. we have nelson kanuk an 18-year-old high school student who is suing the state of alaska for not doing enough to attack climate change. welcome inside "the war room." >> thank you, it's great to be here. >> michael: describe your home life for us. what is it like to live in kipnuk. >> it's shoot different a lot different
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than urban knife. in kipnuk there is no running water. there is no adequate sewage system. so it's kind of--it's a village basically. a small village in the southwest region of the state of alaska. >> michael: and how and when did you start noticing the climate change was impacting your home? >> it was a few years back, back in december 2008. it was--these changes have been ongoing for years and years and i just personal ligand to notice them a few years back, back in middle school, but these changes have been going on for years and years. especially with the river erosion. it's not only kipnuk being affected but any areas of the state, river erosion is the
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biggest thing and the per ma frost thawing causes the river erosion to occur at a fast rate. that's what i noticed the past years, the river erosion and it has been going a lot faster each year for a few years back. >> michael: nelson, tell me, the melting per ma frost. you call it the dying per ma frost, what kind of impact does that have on your community not just your home. >> it has a huge affect on the community because the community is right on sea level. and in the fall time there is a lot of rain. in the wintertime there has been floods in the past few years. that is not what we normally see in kipnuk because the river is frozen the whole winter. the past years there has been big floods that have been reaching into the village
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because it's right on sea level. there are houses that are--that live right next to the river including myself our home, and when the per ma frost thaws and melts, it causes the ground that is the infrastructure for our home to become uneven and houses become tilted. as the erosion comes up faster to the house it forces homes to be moved to other locations. >> michael: nelson, i want to you tell me what brought you to bring legal action to the state of alaska? >> what brought me to bring legal action to the state of alaska was not seeing any adequate response to this huge issue that we face. and it's--sure there are talks
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of policies bees made and actions about to be taken but it's simply not fast enough. >> michael: have you gotten any response from the state on this legal action? >> i have gotten letters from state representatives last year after copies of the film "trust alaska," which is an eight-minute documentary that was filmed in kipnuk about how the issues of climate change are affecting small villages like kipnuk. and there has responses recognizing this is a critical issue that we have to take care of now and thanking youth being involved in the situation. >> michael: thanks for fighting up there. very important. thank you for taking the time. coming up here we'll have brett erlich because north korea's leader uses strange rhetoric and is unintentionally funny and it sounds like a perfect fit for
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brett when he's next here on "the war room."
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>> michael: north korea continues to be a pain in the you know what. we should know. we've got one of those ourselves. everyone just calm down. it's only brett talking. >> north korea what blue up your pyongyang. your erratic behave has us all asking one question which is the title of today's segment whuhh? you're on the brink of nuclear war with everyone. what did we do to you? you're like my high school girl who would wake up mad at me and then point missiles at my locker--she was russian. i watch the dog whisperer so i know what to do.
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stsss. >> whuhh? this all started when you started hanging out with dennis rodman. what did he say to you? he's not our number one ambassador. i've feeling meeting you was the last thing on his bucket list and the last thing is nuclear war. crossing fingers this is not the case and how could you launch anything interest this computer? are you sure it's a computer and not missile command? i hope its missile command. i'm done talking now. >> michael: brett erlich, everyone. someone who is always in our war room when we are celebrating two birds opposite our executive producer and associate producer. check us out online at "the war room" online. and you can check out our twitter and facebook page. thank you for joining us here. "the young turks" are next. have a great night.

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